Going to the Zoo Again!

We are members of the zoo here in Jackson, which is awesome, because we paid like $45 and we can go as many times as we want for an entire year free (well for on time fee $45). So we have been taking advantage of that and go often. This time we actually took picnic lunches and after we walked the zoo we went across the street by the train and sat at the picnic tables. So here are some pics of the kids and us at the zoo!

ok There is a story behind this huge lovely pig! So me and the kids go into the petting zoo and there is this pig just laying there. Mylee walks up and I said, "Mylee look do you want to pet the pig?" She looks up at me as serious as you can be and says, "Momma, its BACON!" I about died of laughter. We left the petting zoo soon after bc she just kept calling him Bacon. It was pretty funny and have no clue where she learned it from!

Beach Fun days 4-8!

Days 4- 8 at the beach were great! We finally got a family picture of the Maurer Family's. My in-laws came, Debra (mom), Bruce (Dad), Kyle(Bro), & Katy (Sis) and our other "bro-in-law" Chris Mallon a.k.a Uncle Mallon. Came down from Oregon to visit us at thebeach!

Just like the first 4 days we rode around the lazy river (yes I think the guys and Katy rode around like atleast 500 times in the four days!) and hung out at the Wharf! We did attempt to go to the beach one days, but Kyle, Katy, and little Kellen said the water itched them and it smelled bad. So onle 1 hour of the trip was at the beach!

Aunt Katy and Princess Mylee after swimming most of the day

Kyle(to the left) and Katy, Debra, & Mallon (to the right) going around the lazy river!

This is Kyle's boat! HAHA he wishes! we went looking around the boats one morning !

We ate at Lulu's one night and Lambert's one afternoon for lunch. My mother-in-law cooked some awesome Lasgana or as little kellen calls it, "Pasgana. And one night we had homemade french fries and pulled pork! They were soooooooooo good! I think I gained like 10 pounds just looking at my mother-in-laws great food!

These next few pics are from Lulu's! As you can tell Little Kellen loves to have his picture taken!

I mean don't I have the most handsome husband EVER!!! and of course the cutest kids!

This is Kellen's best friend Mallon! Yes we are dying for him to move down here! Just need a little inspiration, so all you southern belles line up! He's a keeper!!

This guy too! This is my brother-in-law, Kyle he lives in Tupelo by my in-laws. He is such a great uncle to put up with those 2 clowns!! They just climbed all over him!

I am not real sure what the obession is with Mylee wearing a hat! But she stole uncle Kyle's and wore it all day at the pool! I guess bc her brother loves wearing one!

Grandma and Mylee & Gramps and Mylee! Not real sure why Mylee is wearing this glove or wear she found it!

Well thats about all of our fun trip to The Wharf! Can't wait for vacation next year!!

Beach Fun Days 1-4!

The First 4 days!

The first four days of our Beach vacation, was with my side of the family. My parents, 1 of my sisters, Tamara and her family, and of course us, all stayed in a condo at the Wharf in Orange Beach, AL. We had an amazing time ! We went swimming at the wharf's oasis pool, which had a lazy river, kid pool an dkid slides, waterfalls, and a wave pool. We spent every morning there and came back to eat lunch and just hang out and do whatever the rest of the day.

We went to build-a-bear. Which was Kellens first time to go and do this. Mylee's too but she had no clue what was going on, she just liked looking and touching everything in there. But Kellen loved it. He built on with Patrick and dressed him like a basketball player. He got a dog and of course, its name is "BULLY" hmmm wonder where he came up with that. We now have bully 1 and a bully 2 now. He is such a bulldog fan!! He did not put this dog down for 2 seconds. He loved it!! Now Mylee's is just a plain bear that she now calls Beary! and she sleeps with it everynight.

Here they are doing some build a bear dance!

The kids are loving their glasses and there LuLu here!!

It was pretty funny that we brought there shirts that were just alike and they all just had to wear them.

Here is LuLu with the 2 boys! They are such Hams and love to have their picture taken! The 2 boys are really like best friends. They fight just loke brothers but in the end they love each other very much, Arent they just the cutest!!

Here is me and my sister Tamara (she is older than me! HAHA!) with my ever so cute dad! We are at Lulu's here!

Mylee loved loved loved the water slide. She went down so many times and tried to walk up it, which did not turn out so well!! Kellen and Mylee are so cute! they look so loving and sweet! I am sure right after this she whacked him on the head or pushed him!! She is definelty in the the terrible horrific two stage!!

Crazy Hair Day

Just a quick posts today! Well it was crazy hair day at school today! Kellen wakes up almost every morning and asks whats on the calendar today for school! He loves doing different stuff everyday in the summer. Well whn I told him what day was today , he got all giddy and just started cracking up. He said, "Momma I want rocker hair!" Then he says right after that, "Do you know what that is, its a Mohawk!" dont you just love his rocker face!!

So with the help of his dad and tons of hair gel (and I mean tons bc his hair has gotten so long) we finally suceeded in the mohawk! And when we walked in everyone made over him and his hair do. And if you know my kid he loves loves loves being the center of attention!! Of course his sister had to get her picture too with her Kewhen!

A weekend at the Zoo, a TV Star, & a Bully!!!

This picture is of my sister Kandice, My mom- Shara-, myself, & My sister, Stacy. We missed you TT!!

This past weekend we were quite busy!! We headed to the zoo on Saturday to enjoy the morning sunshine and family. My sister that lives in Huntsville, AL came to visit with her 3 boys and 1 little girl. So we thought, the kids needed to run off a little energy! Altogether we had 8 kids and 7 adults! While we were there the had there Ice Cream Safari! My dad was sooooo excited! For those of you how know my dad, you know he loves some ice cream. There were about 40 different MS celebrities out there serving about 40 different types of Blue Bell ice cream. The kids were wild and full of sugar by noon! It was fun and the kids, I mean Dad and Big Kellen, had a blast eating all the ice cream!

Big Kellen became a TV star, along with my Dad, at the ice cream thing. He was interviewed about the zoo and the how good all the ice cream was! Both of their favorite ice cream was Duck Chocolate, I think it had chocolate with vanilla swirl and brownies in it!

Also at the zoo, until August 15th, they have a splash park. It is by the elephants and it is just 5 big water blow up slides. But we brought their swimsuits and let them play. This is my precious neice, Caitlyn, with crazy faced Kellen. They had soooooo much fun. Mylee got to play on some of them but it was too slippery for her to climb up the slides. My

poor neice tried to help her but the both kept sliding back down!

This was so much fun for the kids and a little cool break from being so hot! We just sat and watched the kids play!

This is Mylee and her POP! She loves this guy! Everytime we see a red truck she screams POP POP POP! Usually in the morning when she wakes up she asks, "Where's Pop?" She is definetly a Pop GURL!

Lastly, this past Wednesday, the boys all went to meet the Bulldogs! Wow I have never seen such excitement from Kellen when he got home, not sure if it was from his new favorite drink Cherry Dr. Pepper that Uncle Brett bought him or the DAWGS!!. He was soooo excited that he got to meet BULLY! and he can not wait till September when games start. They gave him and Big Kellen T-shirts and he had to sleep in it and was so excited that he got one just like daddy.

The Kellen's met some of our good friends up there too, "Uncle" Jeff and "Uncle" Brett. I am sure all 4 of those guys had a blast. Little Kellen would not get his picture taken witht he cheerleaders because he said the only picture he wanted a girl to be in was his momma or his sister! Man I trained him good ! Just kidding. Not sure why he wouldn't but he does love his picture with Bully!

We are going to the beach this Saturday so hopefully we will have some great pictures then. Sorry if I bored you and glad if you liked this post! Until next week!!!